![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Cartoon Network's ''Quick Draw El Kabong'' - Liz Gazzano Cartoon character ''Quick Draw McGraw'' becomes EL KABONG the HERO and fights EL BAD GUY with his steel guitar. El Kabong & Babalooie ride into a garishly colored small town in Mexico that is inhabited by Day of the Dead skeleton townfolk. El Bad Guy and his cohorts are generally out to get the townfolk. El Kabong saves them and heroine Linda Neigh from certain disaster at the end of the piece, and El Bad Guy gets his just desserts.Hand-painted characters and backgrounds were scanned into the MA... Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 35,092 Average rating: (10 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | ZOIDS - Toshihiro Nakazawa In the TV cartoon series, Zoids, made with the toon shader of SoftImage 3D, and 2D cel animations were blended without any oddness.First, each 3D CG model's basic actions (walking, running, jumping) were established, then using the ''animation sequencer'' function of SoftImage 3D, an autofilling ''motion blend'' was performed on the changing parts between the basic actions to produce many cuts. Then, RETAS! PRO and After Effects were used for the cel drawings combining 2D characters, hanging smo... Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 8,420 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Courthouse With Curved Elements - Takehiko Nagakura This prototype house is one of a series of courthouse designs made by Mies van der Rohe in 1930's. The computer graphics film team took the original schematic design that survived on a plan drawing, achieved a derivative version by adding components similar to those found in other projects designed and built by the architect and developed a visualization utilizing radiosity-based software. The camera moves between and around the uniquely shaped elemental walls and reveals the pleasure of develop... Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 4,537 Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Exit - Vancouver Film School A boy is set free by confronting his greatest obstacle; himself. Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 6,125 Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | SAE (a bird) - same with above two miserable pure souls, living in the star,shaped live old woman's belly.3D animation, mostly worked with 'Soft image' and 'phtoshop' and 'FLAME' Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 7,613 Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Hessi James - Martin Burkert In the desert of Arizona two Cowboys meet for a most unusual duel.3d Computeranimated Short FilmSoftware: MayaHardware: Dual 600 MHz Intergraph WorkstationProduction Time: 8 months Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 19,002 Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Silhouette - Ringling School of Art & Design Silhouette is about a toy ballerina who comes to life when her music box opens. As she continues to dance, her imagination runs wild. Is the shadow real, or just a figment of her imagination? This is the question that the ballerina has to ask herself. Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 5,076 |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Modeling & Animation Reel - Vancouver Film School Another version of how the pyramids were created. Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 7,935 Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Wing 2001 - Yusaku Toyoshima This is the TV commercial of new brassiere.We created the charming virtual idol to show brassiere attractive .The charactor's name is ''TSUBASA''. Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 3,845 |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Oddworld: Munch's OddyseeÖ, Siggraph teaser - Exectutive Producer: Sherry McKenna How would you feel if you broke your leg in a bear trap, were abducted by soulless scientists, had an alien device implanted in your skull and found out your race had been hunted to extinction? Meet MunchÖ, the hero of Oddworld's oddest opus yet!Captured by sadistic Vykker neurosurgeons, Munch and his fellow lab animals must escape Vykker's Labs Pharmaceutical Corporation before they are processed into a thousand tiny pain relievers.3D models, animation and rendering were created using Maya and... Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 6,225 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Harvey - Priscilla Collins & Rachel Roberts Harvey is an ambitious project, combining cutting edge digital compositing/ animation techniques with a poetic metaphorical tail about loneliness and incompleteness.The main character, Harvey, has been cut brutally in half from head to groin, down the centre of his body, yet he remains very much alive. The film follows the macabre results of his obsessive relationship with his mysterious neighbour.Combinations of actors shot with blue chroma make-up, heavy inferno mat work and the insertion of 3... Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 17,297 Average rating: (19 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Stop-Motion Versus CG - Erik Vignau Contrary to its title, ''Stop-Motion Versus CG'' employs harmony rather than conflict. It is a collaboration of diciplines and formats-- stop-motion, CG, high-definition video and live-action film-- brought together for laughs.Software: Maya, After Effects, Jenoptic MFHardware: 35mm Mitchell Stop-motion camera, Eyelike digital camera Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 20,828 Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Lunch - Keith Lango Story: The way to a man's heart leads through his stomach - but it can be paved with formidable roadblocks, as Lunch's hero discovers to his dismay.Software: SoftImage 3DHardware: Dell Dimension PC 866 MhzEditing Station: Macintosh G4 with Final Cut ProAwards: Ed>Net Media Arts Award - First Prize, Computer Animation Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 5,477 Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Master Q - Tsui Hark Master Q is a legend in Chinese Folk culture. Most Chinese know this comic character since the 60íªs. Now combing with the vision of Director Tsui Hark and Menfond production; we finished a 75 minutes long 3D character movie within 8 month. It becomes the first 3D character animation in Chinese film history. Tsui Hark said: íºíKMaster Q bought me a lot of happy and sweet memories, especially there has been so many pressure and miseries in our society and family problems... Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 4,373 Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | FREEWARE - Mike Kaczmarek Visually stunning and action packed, Freeware is a 3-D, CG-animated thrill ride through a futuristic world. This sci-fi short follows three cyborgs on a daring race to rescue Maia, an assistant at a powerful IT company, from the grips of its evil CEO. All animation was created using Alias/Wavefronts Maya. Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 37,434 Average rating: (9 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Perestroika - Alexandrovich Friderici Perestroika (pur es troiku) was created as a form of representing a sudden change. Though its Russian political ties are evident, ôperestroikaö, meaning restructuring, is to be taken in the more literal sense of the word. It is rather an individualÆs realization to change what he once believed to be something else. Aided by his aboriginal self, his actions threaten to throw the balance off current reality... Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 8,027 |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | OJO POR OJO - LENIN LEON THIS VIDEO WAS MADE FOR THE OPENING SHOW OF AN ART PAINTING NATIONAL FESTVAL IN MEXICO AND IS A TRIBUTE TO THE EYE, WE USED SEVERAL KINDS OF EYES IN ITS FORM OR IN ITS PARTICULAR NAME THAT YOU FIND IN ESPANISH LENGAGESLIKE THE HURACANS EYE, OR THE EYE OF A NEDLE, BUT NOT A HUMAN EYE. SUPORT WITH MOTIONS GARAFICSTHE SOFTWERE USED IS AFTER FX ADOBE PHOTOSHOP, ILUSTRADOR, AN MEDIA 100 ON MAC G4 Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 4,673 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Microsoft Xbox ''Two to Tango'' - Al Shier, Sherry Wallace Microsoft came to Blur seeking a cutting-edge teaser that would add impact and energy to the unveiling of its future X-Box gaming console. With the visceral and energetic ''Two to Tango'' that Blur created, we were able to convey the emotion, intensity, and visual splendor that video games on the X-Box will possess in the very near future. Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 7,212 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Tabasco Commercials - UPSTART! Filmproduction GmbH Four commercials for Tabasco green pepper sauce produced in film resolution for cinema release in Europe. Character modelling and animation using 3D Studio Max with Character Studio, compositing of various rendered layers in After Effects and Shake. Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 5,198 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | F8 - Jason Wen An individual steals a unique identity in a world of absolute control. Software: Lightwave 5.6, Project Messiah, After Effects, Premiere, Photoshop, Steinberg Nuendo. Hardware: two Pentium IIIs and two Athlons. Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 8,170 Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | When Wolfy Met Helga - Ringling School of Art and Design Wolfgang and Helga are two figurines living in a brand new cuckoo clock. As the clock strikes the hour, it's time for them to meet. Both are very excited, till wolfy meets helga... Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 3,927 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Computer Reconstruction: Temple Site at Phimai - Richard M. Levy A United Nations World Heritage site, Phimai is the site of a walled complex of reconstructed temples, libraries and ancillary structures, one of the most important Khmer monuments in Thailand. Reconstruction of the temple site in Phimai serves as a case study highlighting the potential of computer visualization as a tool in heritage resource management. Besides offering archaeologists, historians and museum curators a non-evasive environment for testing reconstruction scenarios, virtual worlds ... Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 8,569 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Robbie Williams 'Let Love Be Your Energy' - Ed Bignell, Cara Speller In Robbie's first animated promo, we see him running through various landscapes from seashores to cities and in what some might call art imitating life, his 'brief encounters' with glamorous women before he moves onto the next one.Created at Passion using Lightwave 6.5 and Messiah 1.57, the promo was composited in After Effects. The Lightwave Cell Shader was applied to the 3D models to achieve it's two dimensional effect... Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 15,834 Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Serenade - Ringling School of Art and Design Fireflies lead us into an enchanting forest, where a magnificant tree is hosting this evening's serenade. At the base, we find a composer adding the final notes to his midnight symphony. Amongst the branches, a worker is diligently carving an insturment from the woods around him. Beneath the moonlight, the piece intensifies as we join the conductor and his orchestra above the canopy of leaves. Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 6,873 Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | COMICS TRIP - SUPINFOCOM A little boy goes to a birthday party... with his imagination ! Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 14,293 Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | L'ENFANT DE LA HAUTE MER - SUPINFOCOM A little girl alone in the frontsea opens the windows of the town... Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 6,401 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | In the Body - Savage Frog! Based on an original concept and a few rough sketches by Seth Kearsley, Savage Frog! worked up this short piece depicting a ''body factory worker'' dealing with a potential crisis. All of the modeling, animation and rendering was done using NewTek's Lightwave 3D. Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 5,766 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | ManHang (English title:ephemeral epiphany) - Hyunjee Kim The title written in Chinese means the way to reach true knowledge. I tried to depict my own realization of the circle of life in this animation, the destined suffering since the birth, the paralyzed salvation after the death and the voidness of meaning. The only way to escape from the circle of life is to see it and to realize it, although the realization evaporates in a moment. I wanted to see it to show it... Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 6,028 Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Puppet - Steve Anzovin A puppet-master struggles with a marionette who won't be jerked around.This short was originally conceived as a technical test for new character skeleton setup, nonlinear animation, spinning light rig, and multipass rendering techniques in Hash's Animation:Master 2000 (v8.5) software. Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 7,596 Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Oblivious - Ringling School of Art & Design We are unaware of other worlds that exist and how our actions impact the inhabitants of those worlds. This piece was created using Maya - Alias Wavefront, Deep Paint 3d - Right Hemisphere, and Shake - Nothing Real. Hardware: HP Visualize Workstation, SGI 320 Visual Workstation Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 5,843 |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Time Out - Vancouver Film School A little boy has been give a 'time out' in the corner, when he gets an idea to become a ''SuperHero''. He creates havoc around the house unaware the he will encounter his greatest weakness. Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 4,953 Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | L'AUTRE TEMPS - SUPINFOCOM It is always difficult to write a love letter. Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 4,474 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | DAB: Interactive Haptic Painting with 3D Virtual Brushes - Vincent Scheib This video presents the system described in the Siggraph 01 paper by the same name. We attempt to capture the sight, touch, and feeling of the artistic painting process by providing the traditional tools of a painter. This allows anyone to control a virtual brush as he or she would a real brush. To achieve this, we have designed a physically-based, deformable, 3D brush model and bi-directional, two-layer, paint model... Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 5,313 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Vel Satis en Capital - Olivier Boulanger Integrating 3D virtual cars in real environment is a powerfull and essential tool for day-by-day Design process at Renault. Using similar techniques the Renault car ''Vel Satis'' has been integrated in Paris, lighting the city with a touch of magic.Also without taking any confidentiality risks, Renault is able to film and see it's latest production driving around the streets of Parisbefore it's presentation to the public... Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 3,803 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Exploring Serotonin in the GI Tract - Peter Korian IOMedia, in collaboration with Intermed Media Inc, created this interactive presentation for the health-care company, Novartis. The presentation, geared towards medical doctors, explores the relationship between the enzyme, seratonin, and its receptors in the gut, and Irritable Bowel Syndrome. The purpose of the presentation was to visually convey this complex, yet fundamental mechanism, in hopes of creating new therapies for the treatment of IBS... Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 6,643 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Knitwear Rendering - Heung-Yeung Shum Knitwear rendering presents a significant challenge because of the many detailed characteristics of knitwear, such as the microstructure of yarn fibers, variations in stitch patterns, and shape irregularities. In our SIGGRAPH 2001 paper, we address this rendering problem by introducing a modeling primitive called the lumislice, which represents a yarn cross-section. By propagating a lumislice over a knitwear skeleton and adding soft shadow effects, we are able to synthesize realistic images of k... Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 2,467 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Early Light - John S. Banks Early Light is part 2 of a 3 part series dealing with times of day/seasons. The idea is to create a living manuscript of the impressions/memories of different seasons and how they unfold. The work progresses from the end of Winter thru Spring and is also Morning.The work is inspired by experiences of landscape as sensed internally and spiritually. These are interpretations of natureÆs consciousness emerging and shifting in character... Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 9,223 Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | New Baiyun International Airport, Guangzhou City, China - Jeff Coleman The Chinese government needed a public relations tool to promote this completely new major airport construction project to airline customersÆ worldwide. The Architectural staff created the 3D exterior shell in FormZ. This was passed to the animation staff to detail the interior using 3D Studio Max. A seven-minute video shows how a passenger would travel from curbside through the terminal to aircraft boarding and then arriving passengers going thru to the baggage area... Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 4,677 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | The Turing Test - Mark Sagar Artificial Intelligence Computer Algorithms compete with each other in a Game Show setting where they attempt to pass the 'Turing Test' and be accepted as human.The work represents a new paradigm in computer generated filmmaking. The realistic 3D human-like digital actors were recorded in real-time directly from the display of a standard PC. The characters' dialogue was created from textwith a text to speech engine or automaticallysychronized to real voice audio clips... Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 10,961 Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Platonic Chain - Nanae Fujisawa It's a innovational Japanese Cel Animation tasted full 3D CG Animation. These short-story series are written by japanese popular writer KoujiWatanabe, and these near-futuristic stories narrate the life of japanese teens girls with broad-band mobile phones in Tokyo.We could show to produce traditional japanese-style animation perfectly by using full 3D ComputerGraphics based approach.We use many softwares as 3DstudioMAX, Ink'n'Paint(courtesy of Blur Studio),Discreet combustion,Adobe AfterEffects,... Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 6,247 |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Evolution of the Universe: Large-scale Structure and Galaxy Formation - Donna Cox (visualization), Tom Lucas (NOVA) Visual excerpt from the PBS HDTV ''Runaway Universe'', courtesy WGBH-NOVA and Tom Lucas Productions.The Adaptive Mesh Refinement simulation grid automatically refines into subgrids to develop small-scale features, generating over half a terabyte of data. We see gravitation forming nested hierarchies which vary many orders of magnitude. Tiny fluctuations in the density of the early universe are amplified into a network of interconnected filaments... Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 35,526 Average rating: (11 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Antarctica: A Flying Tour of the Frozen Continent - Wade Sisler, Michael Starobin For 18 days during the Southern Hemisphere spring of 1997, a NASA-launched Canadian satellite called RADARSAT collected pieces of a puzzle that will help scientists study the most remote and inaccessible part of the earth -- Antarctica. Scientists have now put the puzzle pieces together to form the first high-resolution radar map of the mysterious frozen continent. With detail to the point of picking out a research bungalow on an iceburg, this new map has answered scientist's questions about the... Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 14,507 Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Capitol Zoom - Gregory W. Shirah Capital Zoom is a seamless, cloudless, zoom-in starting from a global view zooming down to the nation's Capitol. It is composed entirely of real earth-observing satellite data. Included are IKONOS 1 meter data, Landsat7 15/30 meter data, Terra/MODIS 250 meter data, and Terra/MODIS 8 kilometer data. The visualization first zooms in seamlessly, then zooms out showing where the different data set layers reside.This vizualization was created using Maya for motion control, Renderman for rendering, ID... Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 16,732 Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Hubert's Brain - Nina Rappaport Cornered by a bully on a class trip to the natural history museum, Hubert Stinkler, gets locked into a laboratory where he literally stumbles onto a talking brain in a jar and gets mixed up in a bizarre tale of vivisection and mayhem.Hubert's Brain is a twisted buddy movie between a boy and a brain. Each will go to great lengths to prove the values of friendship.The story gives new meaning to the phrase ''everybody needs some...body.''Hubert's Brain was modeled, animated and rendered in Maya fro... Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 17,524 Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | WILD JUNGLE - Motion Ride - Shingo Yasumaru A jungle tour filled with downhill bumps,cliff-hangers,bridge-collapsing moments,the discovery of an ancient burial site,plus an unpredictable ending turns this into one wacky adventure.''WILD JUNGLE'' is a twelve person motion ride with a 180 degree wrap-around screen seamlessly projectedby three CRT projectors at 60 frames/second. Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 10,082 Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Coca Cola ''Clay Dolls'' - Chu Chu Cheng This TVC, for release in China, utilised both CGI plus miniature models set in a festive surrounding in China. An Asian version of the Polar Bear was the aspiration...but with a distinctive Chinese feel, hence the introduction of the magical clay doll family.The miniature city was built and consequently shot by motion control. The CGI clay dolls were animated giving a stop-motion look and feel. The whole production, including CGI, miniatures, and motion control, utilised 4 weeks production time.... Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 15,715 Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | New World Computing Cinematic Team - Mark Caldwell The NWC Cinematic Team is dedicated to the ideal that as a species, we are either inherent storytellers or we're those who hunger to experience the rich tapestry woven by those visual artisans. So prevalent is this drive that there is room for both the industrial entertainment machines and the village storytellers, in whatever form that they take. We are only seven, but each of us bring to the table one exquisite spice to mix with our diligence and passion into a feast that we humbly lay before ... Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 9,485 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Considering an Exotic Pet? - Skye Carlson A predatory reptile makes a cute pet when it's young, but can it be fun to eat from a can instead of catching food on the hoof? And what if the owner gives up trying to care properly for it? Only really well prepared people can take care of an adult exotic pet well enough to give it a pleasant life. Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 19,558 Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | The Big One That Got Away - Vancouver Film School A short story of a sailor dreaming of himself underwater. He discovers a mermaid who wants to kiss. Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 5,940 Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | The Moving Pyramid - Camille Eden The Moving Pyramid is a charming animated short that tells the story of corruption, power and revolution. This short combines traditional, papercut and computer animation and was completed in two years using Softimage software. The making of the Moving Pyramid would not have been possible without the assistance of Industrial Light and Magic and all the animators and technical directors who volunteered their valuable time. Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001 Downloads: 9,342 Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |